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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
Volume 836, Page 107   View pdf image
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    Maryland Caroline County to wit

    Whereas application has been made to me by a Black man
named Cato Pendleton for a certificate of his agreeably to an
act of the General Assembly of Maryland passed at November
session Eighteen hundred and four by which said act free negroes
and molattoes are permitted to travel out of this State upon
their obtention of a Certificate of being free born and whereas
also upon the Oath of James Harrisson of Caroline County
that the said negro man named Cato Pendleton for whom
this certificate is made was free born  I do therefore grant
his said application and hereby certify that he is five feet eleven
inches high or thereabouts was raised in Caroline County
says he is going in his one and twenty years of age has
a scar on each side of the back part of his head is very
dark and rather spare and no other notable marks
that I have discovered
                In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand
    (seal)    and affixed the public seal of my Office this
                twenty fourth day of April anno Dimini
                Eighteen hundred and Eighteen
                                              Jo Richardson Clk of
                                              Caroline County Court


    State of Maryland Caroline County to wit  Whereas application
hath been made to me by a negro man named John
Hynson for a certificate of his freedom agreeably to an act of
assembly of the said State passed at November session Eighteen hundred
and five by which said act free negroes & molattoes are
permitted to travel out of the said State upon their


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